Link. “Van Zandt says Springsteen is “the only guy I know—I think the only guy I know at all—who never did drugs.”
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Gatekeeper settings.
Link. I think you can also change them per app using get info. Most important part of Mountain Lion.
Early impacts of 3D printers: making handcuff keys.
Link. Interesting as a herald of shocks to come.
Why things you leave behind are often not stolen.
Link. Most people aren’t thieves.
Implicit Passwords.
Link. You can’t reveal what you don’t know you know.
Select an AirPlay device to stream audio from the menu bar
Link. “If you have the Volume menu visible in the menubar, clicking on this icon displays a simple volume slider. But if you hold the Option key when you click on the icon, you can select audio inputs and outputs directly,”
Install your OS X voice updates …
First big ML bug: CoreSchedulingSet Crashes.
Link. We knew there’d be some …
Thor’s Well Oregon – picture.
3D circuit printing may commercialize in next few years.
Link. Automated manufacturing could devastate China.
All the humans became one species within the last 50,000 years.
Link. Are there modern human groups that are mutually infertile?
Bake, then irradiate. GCC storms induce ozone depletion.
Link. GCC: Global Climate Chaos.
Tom the dancing bug and the heat-plains of the midwest.
Link. But the earth is cooling, really.
BMT and antiretroviral therapy eliminating HIV.
Link. Many implications beyond HIV.
Senate vote on Bush tax cut not a charade.
Link. More meaningful than I’d thought.
Cirith Ungol (xkcd).
Link. Mouseover is particularly important today.
Breach-of-Trust in Bain Capital (DeLong on Kleiman).
Link. Rhymes with Bane.
Google Fiber: a blog, not a G+ share.
Link. A little ray of sunshine.
What did Kansas do to deserve this?!
Link. Did they offer up their first born?
“Free Internet: We know that not everyone is ready to commit to a gig just yet. But we want to make sure you have the opportunity to upgrade when you’re ready. So if you pre-register and your fiberhood gets installed, you’ll have the option to get a 5 megabit per second (Mbps) connection for zero monthly charge, and your home will be wired and ready for the switch. The Free Internet option will cost $0 per month, although you will have to pay a $300 construction fee (which can either be paid at once, or in $25 monthly installments).”
OS X Dashboard.
Link. i want them to be part of desktop like original idea.
Google Fiber.
Link. Please Google please come to St Paul.
Economist on arctic warming.
Link. “This transformation is in fact happening faster than anyone had predicted.” Climate models were too conservative.
China is …. a …. communist state.
Link. Well said.
Why Won’t Mitt Romney Root For His Own Horse?
Link. Let’s send the horse some donations.
BoGu: Justice China Style.
Link. One may live, the other is walking dead.
Mountain Lion Changes the Rules for AppleScript.
Link. Complicated hacks! Apple engineers worked hard but what an odd result.
You’re 50 now. It’s time to start plan 0.
Link. I need to update the pw archive and the domain transfer recommendations.
iCloud group replication resolved by AppleScript.
Link. AS still works on Mountain Lion. Mostly.
A shot in the dark – Am I my brother’s keeper?
Link. Cain said no.
Import files into the Notes.app in Mountain Lion
I figured out how to remove all my excess iCloud groups.
Link. AppleScript finally saves me.
TNC on his son.
Link. “I got no complaints from the guards…”. I love reading these posts.
iTunes U is quietly becoming better.
Link. Slowmo revolution.
Admixture matters – no human bottleneck after all.
Link. “Shallow divergence times and higher effective population sizes in some human populations may not be the result of Biblical-level bottlenecks as small tribes of humans “conquered the earth”, but of thorough and long-term gene flow between populations within the genus Homo.”
In other words, no 5000 humans on the edge. Once we had fire and weapons, we swarmed the planet.
Romney tees off the UK.
Link. Way to go Mitt.
Romney throws Rafalca Thrown Under the Bus.
Link. Wife? What wife?
Weirdly cheap super-high quality Korean displays?
Link. Sounds like an arbitrage opportunity. What’s up with this?
Apple screen repair and AT&T unlocked iPhones: getting an unlocked refurb back
Link. Good answers to this from Macintouch readers: “… Tell Mr. Gordon that Apple does track unlocked iPhone status for phones that are unlocked by the carrier. Second-level Apple support did this for me when I was having problems with a T-mobile SIM in my iPhone 4. First-level support apparently does not have access to this database.
…Not true — at least not for iPhones replaced under warranty. Under those conditions, the characteristics of the original phone (locked status, AppleCare, etc) are automatically transferred to the replacement phone. Once an iPhone is unlocked (after sale, by carrier’s request), it appears as such in Apple’s product database. For example, I paid $80 to unlock officially an iPhone 4 originally sold locked to Vodafone UK; when it required replacement under warranty, the local Austin, TX Apple Store gave me an American iPhone 4 and unlocked it.
If Apple won’t do this for an out-of-warranty iPhone, perhaps JG should contact Apple Executive Relations and request an exception. Anyone in an Apple Store can see on their handheld checkout device whether an iPhone is locked or not, and there’s a simple checkbox that determines whether a replacement phone is locked or not…”
Macintouch readership is the best.
Does ML break iOS / iTunes / OS X Note sync?
Link. Macintouch: “I synced my iPhone 4 with my MacBook Air but no messages from Notepad were synced.”
Emergency trachea transplant technique works.
Link. “the treatment plan for Ciaran was devised in an emergency”. Right out of the movies. Can’t tell from article if this is generalizeable beyond trachea transplants.
We have an average solar system?
Link. “all solar systems may start out looking very similar”. Fermi paradox gets paradoxer.
Samsung over iPhone — VerizATT is the winner.
Link. Geeks celebrate, but my tribe is foolish. Android over iPhone is a win for US carriers. They make Apple look like Mother Teresa.
Rebellious islanders: A London Olympics protest poster (via Stross).
Link. Really, North Korea is the natural Olympics site.
Cache Cleaner adds ML bootable USB drive create.
Free Autodesk CAD app for Mac.
Link. Unexpected! Free?!
Tech shopping tips: wirecutter and more.
Link. Impressive tips from NYT super-shopper.
Inexpensive language apps.
Link. Use by students?
Climate change and infrastructure investment.
Link. And free money and a CO2 tax need.
China punishes marchers with laogai.
Link. Learning from NK.
Japan and India.
Link. And not China.